May 29, 2008

We know from a
flash-forward in Season 3 that someone Jack and Kate know has died; we
see Jack at the funeral home with the closed casket. Theories on who's
in the coffin range from Sawyer (because his real name is James and a
newspaper clipping Jack's holding, presumably about the deceased, has a
name that starts with J) to Michael to Juliet to Ben (because the
coffin's short and he has no known family, which could explain the lack
of mourners) or even the mysterious Jacob (see question 3). Executive
producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof have reportedly said that the
dead person is someone who was introduced to viewers before Season 4.

2. What happened to Claire?

Since
she followed her supposedly dead father into the jungle in the middle
of the night, disappearing and leaving baby Aaron behind, Claire has
also turned up in Jacob's cabin. When a surprised and concerned Locke
finds her there with Christian (her and Jack's father), she tells him
not to worry, she's fine. Some people theorize that Claire was already
dead before leaving the Others' encampment, having been blown up by the
Freighter People in her house.

3. Who is Jacob, exactly?

Said
to be the leader of the Others, Jacob is first introduced in Season 3
as an invisible presence in a rocking chair in a cabin in the jungle, a
voice that tells Locke "Help Me" and a force that shakes the cabin and
scares the heck out of Locke. Hurley has his own creepy run-in with
Jacob in Season 4 after stumbling across the cabin and seeing a shadowy
figure in a chair through the window and then a man in the window. Some
theorize Jacob doesn't exist and is a Wizard of Oz-like
invention of Ben's. Other theories: he's the smoke monster; he's the
Other known as Richard Alpert; he's Charles Widmore or (this one's
really out there) he's Jack.

4. What will happen to Jin?

As
far as we know, Jin's dead. We've seen Sun, in a flash-forward, visit
his grave. And we've seen Sun tell her bully of a father that she holds
him and another person responsible for Jin's death. But the date of
death on Jin's tombstone, Sept. 22, 2004, the same date as the Oceanic
815 crash, has led to speculation Jin is still alive on the island.

5. Where and how are Ben and Locke going to move the island?

Locke
goes to Jacob to find a way to keep the Freighter People from killing
everyone on the island. The surprising answer: "He wants us to move the
island." In a flash-forward, Ben tells Widmore that he'll never find
the island, suggesting it was successfully moved. On its website, Popular Mechanics magazine
theorizes the island could be moved through quantum teleportation, or
the island's electromagnetic properties and something called the
Casimir Effect opening a transversible wormhole.

March 28, 2008

Years
of BitTorrenting and lossless CD-ripping have finally paid off: Your PC
is packed with enough high-fidelity digital entertainment to trigger
palpitations in the snobbiest mediaphile. Meanwhile, you've got that
1080p tyranno-vision LCD and eardrum-pounding 7.1-channel sound system
just aching to play it all. But how to meld the two? It's time to build
a home network. Don't fret — it's a lot easier than you think.

Step 1: Get Storage DeviceStop stockpiling
media on your PC — its anemic hard drive will crash harder than a sugar
junkie if you cram it full of HD content and force it to run a bloated
operating system. Get a network-attached storage device to serve as a
central media repository for every computer in the house. Good ones
create backups of your data on multiple built-in drives, so even if
half of them somehow fail, season four of The Simpsons will remain intact.

Step 2: Set Up StreamerScolded by your S.O.
for spending too much quality time with the game console? Share the
love! Both Xbox 360 and PS3 can stream media from a PC to a TV (a Wii
can, too, but it takes some clever tweakery). No console? The recently
retooled Apple TV should do the trick. Its slick new UI, movie rental
options, and ability to operate sans PC is a home-entertainment
breakthrough. Caveat: Unlike the consoles, Apple TV's lack of native
support for DivX/Xvid means it's useless for all those Torrent files
without performing a warranty-busting hack.

Step 3: Link It All UpYou can shoot music all
over a Wi-Fi network with nary a digital hiccup — but hi-def video
files approach 6 GB per hour of footage, making wireless streaming a
jittering nightmare. Best to connect your machines with good
old-fashioned copper, like a CAT6 Ethernet cable, which at 1,000 Mbps
is nearly five times faster than the fleetest 802.11n connection. Then
grab a gigabit switch — basically a traffic cop for your network — and
route all of your connections through it. You can even allot more
bandwidth to movie files so the picture won't stutter.

March 13, 2008

I was counting the Oceanic six at the beginning of the show and it was NOT adding up...then...the graveside..what happened to Jin? What the heck is Michael up to? And it WAS Michael. I was correct about that fact. Where is Walt? Why did the lady on the boat commit suicide? How does Sun get off the freakin' island?

March 12, 2008

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Maybe it is because I could never really get into the X-Files. Maybe because at that time I was working ninety hours a week and all I could do when I settled in to watch television was go to sleep. Maybe it was because there was no Tivo then. Something sinister and subtle and magic and fairy-dusty compels me to choose Lost.

Reasons I think Jack kicks Mulders butt and that Kate is tougher (and prettier, I might add) than Scully....

Lost has the most evil villain. Ben is a buggy eyed kinder gentler Hannibal Lector. Lost has more characters and interesting stories. Locke, Kate, Jack, Michael, Jin, Juliette, Hurley, Sawyer, Claire, Sun, Desmond, Sayid and I could go on...Lost has a sci-fi element and an escapist element. Who doesn't want to be stranded on an island like the one on Lost? Lost is somehow more believable to me. I love trying to read the titles of the books...I love Lost!!!

How about you, my watercooler pals? What better watercooler talk than wondering if the man on the boat is...shhhhhh. Michael? Aaaaaagggghhhh.

May 07, 2007

Finally, some answers—just not the ones Lost fans were expecting. ABC
has announced that the island-dwelling series will run for 48 more
episodes, to be spread out over three 16-episode seasons, before
drawing to a close at the end of 2009-10 season.

Whether that end
is heralded with the shattering of a tropical snowglobe, Jack awakening
from a long dream, the completion of a stint in purgatory or—as is most
likely—some heretofore unseen scenario, the survivors of Oceanic flight
815 will, one way or another, make their way off the island.